Long Covid sufferers endure a wider set of symptoms than previously thought according to new research published Monday in Nature Medicine.
According to a peer reviewed analysis of health records from over 2 million people in England, there are many Long Covid symptoms, including hair loss and sexual function issues.
Patients with a recorded Covid infection were more likely to experience symptoms than those who had not contracted the coronaviruses.
Respiratory symptoms, mental health and cognitive problems, as well as a broader range of symptoms like pain, fatigue and rash, can be grouped under one of three umbrellas: respiratory symptoms, mental health and cognitive problems, and a broader range of symptoms like pain, fatigue and rash.
The study shows that people who are overweight and obese are more likely to develop Long Covid.
The researchers said that people with a variety of health conditions were more likely to develop symptoms.
Why does Long Covid happen? Long Covid could turn out to be more than one condition, but experts don't know what causes it. Some form of immune response is a possible theory. Anuradhaa Subramanian is a research fellow at the Institute of Applied Health Research at the University of Birmingham. There is a suspicion that the immune system plays a role in the risk of Long Covid.
Reports of persistent or even novel symptoms lingered in the weeks and months after a Covid infections began to emerge. After other viral infections, researchers categorized the collection of symptoms as Long Covid. Researchers have come to understand that Covid can affect almost every system in the body, even though the terms are not settled. There are no proven treatments for Long Covid and there is no evidence that vaccination protects against it. There is an increased risk of death or chronic illness associated with a Covid infection.
One in five. According to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, how many Covid survivors have symptoms of Long Covid? More than 90 million cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in the U.S. Some 18 million people could be suffering from Long Covid in the U.S., according to a rough estimate.
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